Sentences with phrase «of classical compositions»

Riffing off of classical compositions — most notably Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya — the Dresden - born artist takes...

Riffing off of classical compositions — most notably Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya — the Dresden - born artist takes an attitude of irreverence along with impressive skill and respect for traditional technique.»

Pablo Picasso's re-working of classical composition inspired in part by African masks, Frank Stella's creation of non-rectangular shaped canvases, and Dan Flavin's experimentation with neon light are all important milestones in the history of modernism — an art movement that has origins in Western Europe in the early twentieth century and took hold in America in the 50s and 60s.

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He certainly regards Ellington as a genius, and by no means dismisses his artistically ambitious side (the way the Count - Basie - loving John Hammond did, for example), but he emphasizes his shortcomings in long - form composition, due to deficiencies in his understanding of classical music.

Still another trend — and this one should have caught Easum's attention, given his interest in «sound tracks» — is the use of music that draws on classical idioms in the composition of musical scores for films of high drama, serious feeling or intense introspection.

One expert witness testified for the defense that the photograph of a penis with a finger inserted into it «was a very ordered, classical composition» and that another photograph, of an arm in an anus, was formally similar to the photograph of a flower.

The results of a study showed that listening to classical compositions by arguably the most famous classical music composer of all time was seen to improve performance of certain mental tasks in the short term.

Described in a paper published Nov. 28 in the arXiv pre-print repository, MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely licensed classical music recordings with annotated labels that indicate the exact start and stop time of each individual note, what instrument plays the note and its position in the composition's metrical structure.

Recent analysis of 2006 SQ372, Sedna, and related object 2000 OO67 — all three dynamically linked to the inner Oort Cloud — indicate that a surface composition enriched in organic material (like the low - inclination, classical Kuiper Belt objects) may be a general characteristics of objects that stay far from the Sun (Scott S. Shepard, 2009).

Juel was born in Seoul, South Korea and first graduated in Classical Music Composition at the university of Seoul before moving to London.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

The common thinking about Eastwood these days — at least, outside the critical circle that deems his every tasteful composition and mild camera movement a classical masterstroke — is that his internal compass for choosing projects has been off for a while, making him susceptible to the bad taste of undistinguished screenwriters.

Enjoying our 6th year of operation, our students are partaking in a rigorous classical education that includes world & American history and geography, grammar and composition, poetry, French and Latin, art, music, physical education, penmanship, spelling, science, mathematics, and classical literature.

The smaller schools have a hard time fielding concert bands that can perform classical compositions with parts for dozens of instruments.

The first graphic novel ever nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the 2007 Printz Award, its twisting narrative, ironic tone, classical page composition, and deep, human insights stand alone but could also make an excellent contrast for the straight narrative, epic sweep, experimental art, and deep, human insights of another graphic novel that explores themes of immigration, Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2007).

Multilingual, well traveled, and sharp - witted, Cameron was curious about not only the scientific process of photography but also the artistic composition of portraits, using classical paintings as her model.

Adlai enjoys the challenge of arranging band or orchestral music for solo guitar, drawing from his formal training in classical theory and composition.

Ash's plight is accented by the game's dramatic soundtrack, a collection of classical music themes arranged by the fan - favorite game music composition team known as Ridiculon.

One could argue that the original Fantasia only used classical compositions, and the couple of original pieces that composer Inon Zur (best known for contributing to game soundtracks such as Fallout 3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Soul Calibur V) adds are great, but then why do we have to deal with Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj?

Captivating gameplay allows the player to take part in the composition of musical masterpieces in the classical and folk genres simply by tapping the screen.

After three years in his home city music school, Pedro moved to Lisbon where he continued his classical studies in the National Conservatory for another four years with the famous composer Eurico Carrapatoso, considered one of the best living composition teachers in the world and piano with the Chopin expert, Melina Rebelo.

After his long classical training on composition and orchestration, Pedro learned film scoring in Berklee College of Music.

In 2012 the Requiem Inês de Castro, for choir, orchestra, soprano and baritone, was premiered in one of the most prestigious venues in Portugal with 2000 people in the audience, receiving critical acclaim from the classical world for its fresh but also classy composition approach.

Each fever dream was inspired by and contained renditions of some of the most well known classical compositions.

My musical style is a mix of classical, electronic, and the video game composition style of the Japanese.

Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.

He graduated in classical piano and composition at the Music Academy of Florence in Italy but has been working as a freelance illustrator for the last 10 years.

Prominent works include Dresden Dynamo at Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, in 1976 and her «expanded» cinema work Light Music, which was motivated by the lack of women composers in classical European composition at Tate Modern in 2012.

Bacchus (1988), on the other hand, dates from the latter years of Mapplethorpe's career when his focus shifted towards male and female nudes, classical sculpture and still - life compositions.

While Borremans's technical command of his medium recalls classical painting — the rich tactility and special glow of his painted surfaces evoke the Old Master tradition and artists such as Francisco Goya — his compositions elude traditional interpretative strategies.

Throughout the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a bevy of images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to name a few of his preferred genres.

The artist's portraits of young children highlight the attention to detail, composition and color that characterize much of classical painting.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

But no, Thiebaud never fully abandoned comestibles as a subject matter, and now at 95 he continues to render heartland delicacies in the same luscious way: always deriving the compositions from his imagination (and not observation), and placing his emphasis not on the food porn but on classical considerations of shadow, light, scale, color, and perspective.

Eisenman's work is variable, ranging from colored abstract compositions to realist works created in the classical style, and she has consequently proven herself compotent in and comfortable with all facets and styles of painting.

The send up of the café furniture will be juxtaposed by the classical tropes in the loosely painted compositions.

The single image is repeated twelve times along the length of the wall, with the composition's receding lines and diminishing dots of classical one - point perspective alternately moving backward toward the horizon and forward toward the viewer.

The re-writing and narration of the individual shifts to a slightly different perspective in the artist's later series, titled Exodus, as the classical compositions emphasize global aspects of living and the political geography of our globalized culture.

During the 80s, Mapplethorpe produced a series of photographs that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylized compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and studio portraits of artists and celebrities.

I felt elements of familiarity and sincerity in the work; they struck me as compelling and unique compositions, yet tied to the canon of Classical painting.

While these elements reflect the components of a seemingly classical composition, Carreño portrays the scene within a verdant landscape that evokes an imagined tropical garden inspired by the artist's native Cuba.

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

Classical music is defined by the extensive and refined structure of the compositions, where complex auditory space enables fine distinctions of emotion, imagination, and meaning.

The three works selected for Soundtracks are Sphere Packing: Mozart (2014; white polymer, 565 audio channels), Sphere Packing: Wagner (2013; glazed porcelain, 110 audio channels), and Sphere Packing: Cage (2014; plastic, 269 audio channels)-- an abridged walk through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.2 The series as a whole, featuring seventeen composers, constitutes nothing less than a broad history of classical music, with surprising insights in terms of productivity, ranging from seventeen compositions (by Claudio Monteverdi) to 1,128 (by Johann Sebastian Bach).

In such paintings as Min - Oe (1951) Twombly devised bold, symmetrical compositions, which, he suggested, were characteristic of both primitive and classical art.

By Suzanne Lynch, Director of Marketing and Development — As a recipient of an FY2017 Individual Artist Fellowship, Michael Kurek applied his award money toward the production of an album of his classical music compositions, which was released by Parma Recordings on July 14, 2017, on

Wiley is part of an important new group of highly visible artists of African descent such as Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare and Barkley Hendricks who have introduced people of color into major classical compositions.

The lyricism and careful composition of her work has been compared to the classical Indian Ragas, but with their high keyed color and keen energy the new paintings could as easily have spilled from a steamy «Bollywood» romance.

The string quartet, organized by Dutch artist Gabriel Lester, performed classical compositions for half an hour, and while the significance of concealing the players» bodies remained somewhat elusive, the music imbued the cavernous space with warmth, even drowning out the cannonade of balloons.

Entitled Light Passage, the artworks include classical compositions and dramatic use of light and dark along with subtle references to anime, street fashion and youthful rebellion, tracing back to Morimoto's Japanese heritage.